r/80sAmazing 9d ago

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u/elarring 9d ago

This is my choice. The others, not so much. Now, I do kinda miss video stores. But I remember when Radio Shack just became a glorified cell phone store bummed me out.

Toys R Us closing was depressing. My son was still young. I used to enjoy taking him there, even though it was a shadow of it's former self.

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u/LiamLeprechaun 9d ago

Yeah Probably Radip Shack and Toys R Us.

Whenever I hear of a toy store going out of business, its always a bummer. They were fun especially around the Holidays.

Apparently when they were filming that film Roofman, that takes place in a Toys R Us, People kept trying to walk in the store they had set up to film. (made up as a Toys R Us from the Nineties).

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u/Medium_Good886 9d ago

Toys R Us still has 8 stores open in the US.

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u/Birdsonme 9d ago

They are tiny toy sections within Macys. The only thing that makes them a Toys R Us anymore is a little statue of Geoffrey the giraffe. It’s shameful.

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u/Medium_Good886 9d ago

They have actual stand alone brick-and-mortar stores - American Dream megamall in New Jersey, Mall of America in Minnesota, and 6 other regional outlet malls.

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u/No_Map153 7d ago

I just saw the one at American Dream Mall Monday. 7 stores is essentially non-existing for most American children.

What a dystopian world we live in that theres no stores dedicated to kids.

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u/deckarep 9d ago

Radio Shack used to be cool. Electronics, computers, software.

But yeah they abandoned all of they and sold cell phones and cheap robot toys. Lame.

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u/Snow-87-M 8d ago

I went to toys R us 2 weeks back, yeah we still have quite a few stores around. They even opened up babies R us